From: Weiqi Gao Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP and CYGWIN questions Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:39:11 +0000 Organization: CRL Network Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <35DF104F.265E96E8@a.crl.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: a116021.stl1.as.crl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Leiming Qian wrote: > > [GNU-Win32 vs. DJGPP] You should compare the .o file size, not the final .EXE file size. DJGPP FAQ has accounts to why the .EXE file is so large. GNU-Win32 can use .DLLs, that probably explains something. > Now that I am here, I might as well ask some off-topic questions: I have > always been writing programs in console mode and never worried about user > interface, since my field is digital signal processing. However my advisor > asked me to write a GUI interface for the latest---again, console > mode---program I wrote. Under Xwindow, I used Tcl/Tk and it was pretty easy, > but for Windows, I have no idea where I should start with. Why not stick with Tcl/Tk? It's available for Win32 (even Win32s). > I don't like > Microsoft VC++, thought it was designed for idiots. Now I can read a Windows > C/C++ programming book and start from scratch or, as far as I understand, > Djgpp has a GUI development library, or I can use Cygwin32. For those of you > who have been there and done that, which way would you recommend, for a > programmer who has no GUI and Windows programming experiences whatsoever? -- Weiqi Gao weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com